Street Smarts
Love of the land has been infused in Shuki’s blood since birth; he’s the right man for our challenge
Street Smarts
“‘What are you doing in Tel Aviv with no money?’ I asked him. I have strong intuition, so I knew this fellow needed a little hadrachah, not just a ride
Street Smarts
My driver thought for a minute, then pulled out his phone and called a boy from Los Angeles and announced that he had a girl for him
Street Smarts
“Do your students speak to you about yahadut, about Judaism? Do they discuss their questions and doubts?”
Street Smarts
My wife and I got into the taxi expecting a trip across the holy city, but instead we got a trip through a seminal moment of Jewish history
Street Smarts
“Do you know whose briefcase this is?!” he asked the driver. “Rabbi Hershel Schachter is the Baba Sali of American Ashkenazim!”
Street Smarts
I marveled at the hashgachah that had brought this driver back to Tel Aviv that day, and had brought me to his taxi
Street Smarts
The driver told me that he eventually discovered that the wall was the Kotel, and he learned what it was and what it represented
Slices of Life
Only if I look strange, American girl that I am, coming for stuffed peppers and “blintches” and mashed potatoes with tzimmes
Slices of Life
Because for us time stopped in March, right after Purim, and it hasn’t passed by so much as crept
Slices of Life
Or maybe it was something else, something less about technique and more about mindset
Day in the Life
Max Berlin is the chairman of the executive committee of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah in Detroit, Michigan
Profiles
Rav Reuven Feinstein has tapped the clarity born of loss to write a new chapter about the bonds of marriage and true faith
For the Record
New Haven was also America’s first mussar-oriented yeshivah
